David Seidler Kings Speech

• Audience?

  Initial audience were the actors

  Those interested in royal family.

  Subsequent audience were wide broad audience due to the general release film due to famous actor + award winning film
• Purpose?

  To entertain /' inform

  To create a sense of catharsis - give representation of disability

  For profit
• Voice?

  Conflicting formality vs informality

  Bertie = resistant, proud, repressive, privileged, impatient, blunt

  Lionel = colloquial, performative disrespect,
• Context?

  Seiders = personal resonance having a speech impediment himself.

  He had access to notes of Lionel building his reliability + ethos
• Key techniques?

  Colloquial langauge

  Mirrored syntactical patterning

  Anaphoric mirroring
• Context?

  2010 Oscar award winning historical drama, set in 1930s

  Lionel = an Australian speech and language therapist

  Prince Albert / King George VI

  The stress of becoming King led to speech impediment
• Genre


  Written script for performance / filming / production